For some reason, even after Y2K and the 2012 Aztec doomsday both not turning out to be true, people seem obsessed with the idea that the world may come to an end.
This Assyrian tablet is believed to date back to sometime between 2,800 and 2,500 B.C.E. The tablet speaks of societal collapse and an end of the world.
The Assyrians Thought Society Would Degrade and the World Would End
As for the details of the Norse doomsday, there’s supposed to be a really long winter, a famine, and so much bloodshed that people will kill their own kin.